Desktop grids and volunteer computing systems (DGVCS′s) utilize the free resources available in Intranet or Internet environments for supporting large–scale computation and storage. For over a decade, DGVCS′s have been one of the largest and most powerful distributed computing systems in the world, offering a high return on investment for applications from a wide range of scientific domains (including computational biology, climate prediction, and high–energy physics). While DGVCS′s sustain up to PetaFLOPS of computing power from hundreds of thousands to millions of resources, fully leveraging the platform′s computational power is still a major challenge because of the immense scale, high volatility, and extreme heterogeneity of such systems. <BR><BR>The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing recent advances and identifying open issues for the development of scalable, fault–tolerant, and secure DGVCS′s. The workshop seeks to bring desktop grid researchers together from theoretical, system, and application areas to identify plausible approaches for supporting applications with a range of complexity and requirements on desktop environments. <BR><B>Keywords:</B> <BR> <UL><SPAN class=style3><SPAN class=style4><STRONG> <LI>DGVCS middleware and software infrastructure (including management) <LI>incorporation of DGVCS′s with Grid infrastructures <LI>DGVCS programming environments and models <LI>modeling, simulation, and emulation of large–scale, volatile environments <LI>resource management and scheduling <LI>resource measurement and characterization <LI>novel DGVCS applications <LI>data management (strategies, protocols, storage) <LI>security on DGVCS′s (reputation systems, result verification) <LI>fault–tolerance on shared, volatile resources <LI>peer–to–peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to DGVCS′s </LI></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></UL>
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PCGrid
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Miami, FL
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